What about option for mix stderr and stdout to the same output stream?

[TimurAditazz]

[fleipold]

Sounds like an interesting idea. How would you merge the two streams? Always one line at a time?

[TimurAditazz]

I wonder if users expect different behavior than as shell making that redirection. 2>&1

[fleipold]

There are a couple of things, perhaps you would like to specify a prefix for each stream, so that you get something like this:

[stdout] I was printed on stdout
[stderr] I was printed on stderr

You might even want to be able to specify a line prefix and a line suffix per stream, so that you can use ansi sequences, e.g. to turn the stderr stream red.

[TimurAditazz]

Sounds great and gorgeous

[Bendodroid]

public static String runShellCommand(String shellCommand) {

        ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        new ProcBuilder("bash")
                .withArgs("-c", shellCommand)
                .withOutputStream(out)
                .withErrorStream(out)
                .withNoTimeout()
                .run();
        return out.toString();
    }

This does the job for me...

[jpstotz]

@Bendodroid Your code works fine as long as there are no errors (e.g. different exit code). In such a case the exception error message will only contain STDOUT: Already consumed, thus you would have to implement your own exception handling and then add the stdout/stderr output.

It is sad, that jproc doesn't support the simple workaround processBuilder.redirectErrorStream(true);